The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-05-27
PUSSY HOUSEKEEPERS.
Women Who Make Themselves Unhapp
by Worrying Over Tri1es.

Women Who Make Themselves Unhappy
by Worrying Over Trifies.
4 woman may be good housekeep-
er without being a fussy one. There
is nothing so trying to the nerves of a
person as one of these fussy people in
a family. She never rests herself nor
allows any one else to rest. She Is
always in a continual worry for fear
something is out of place. Each arti-
Gle of furniture is arranged in just
such way, so that peI5on going
away to be gone some time may return
at the end of year OF two and find
every thing in the SAME place that it
was on the day of departure. The
curtains on all the windows must be
pulled down to the same level, unless
when the sun mods his golden head at
one of the windows, then down comes
that blind full length, directly in the
friendly face of this genial fellow. No
speck of dust ever finds a resting-plaee
in her house, neither does ray of sun
light. Both are unwelcome visitors,
and she does not encourage them to
enter
When a visitor comes to the house
her nerves are put to a hard trial, for
she can not sit still for any length of
time, but will jump up in the midst Of
some story that the guest is telling to
arrange the table-cOyer that seems one
sided, then the conversation will go on
until her sharp eyes catch sight of a
thread on the carpet, and for her there
can be no peace of mind until it is re-
moved. At the risk of offending her
caller she again arises, by so doing
very often breaking the thread of the
conversation, and picks up the Obnox-
ious irritant The visitor very justly
remarks here: "Why don't you rest a
little while, you always seem to be
working; 1 never see you sitting
down. e'Oh," replies the housekeep-
er, II don't have any time, l am work
ing all the time, and am never really
done. =
Very few callers feel at all at their
ease while visiting such a person. and
if they are at all Xix e the writer of this
article, they feel, to use a HON ely ex-
preston, ''like cat in a strange gar
ret.
Women with large families are sell
dom fussy housekeepers, for even if
they are so inclined their many duties
will not permit them the time to fuss
over little things. which is extremely
fortunate for themselves and their fam
lilies.
There is no necessity for woman TO
be all the time worrying over such
trifles as specks of dust. She can be a
good housekeeper and her house be in
any thing but disorder, without carry
ing buster all the time in her hand,
or without shutting out the sunlight,
even though its brightness makes the
furniture look dingy and she has to lay
down a paper where the rays are in
danger of fading the carpet
"A place for every thing and every
thing in its place" is a good rule by
which to work. generally, but there are
some things for which it is hard to find
/ a place, and one of these IS dust. The
I best receptacle for this article is damp
buster. which may be washed out east
/ ". but even this viii not hold all the
/ dust in tie room, and after a thorough
/ cleaning Of the furniture there viii
+ still be some about that will settle on
the cleahsed articles. Let it lie there;
/ it will do no harm; better that il should
| be at rest than floating through the
room. waiting 10 be breathed in by
some 81 n insl .tes of the b. use
Boasq. Basl9s1